I’m down at church checking IDs to make sure no furriners attempt to vote on our school budget or city council races. I’ll let you know tomorrow if ICE shows up, unless they showed up for me.The human body is an odd thing, though I’m not sure it’s as odd as Arlo thinks it is. […]
Let’s start with something guaranteed to offend somebody: I’m okay with death. We all die eventually and maybe my stoicism makes it easier to deal with but I can’t think of a major religion in which a well-prepared death is seen as bad. It’s sad, but it makes sense to deal with it, and Bizarro […]
Funny you should mention it, Jen. My friend and I were discussing movies we were supposed to like but didn’t, which included a mashup of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and the Lion in Winter called “Guess Who’s Coming to the Crusades,” in which Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine exchange witty suburban repartee some […]
The gag here is that the scale doesn’t go that far, though if Whitehead realized that when he drew this cartoon he’d have added more beer cans. Jefferson wrote, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,” and he was a Deist. I’m agnostic and I feel the same way, so […]
Sunday: To Comma or Not To Comma and Two Title PanelsTwo words in Rubes and two words in Cowtown, both with the proper use of the comma or lack thereof.I think my favorite part of The Sunday Funnies was the dinosaur vignette in Little Oop‘s title panel. Also, for no reason I can discern, the […]
Pour yourself a bowl of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, because I’m not in the mood for discussing important things today.I didn’t guffaw at the joke — It’s okay but not mind-bending — but I liked the center panel a lot and I also thought Hammie’s shrug was well captured.Even on a frivolous day, if you […]
This took me a minute, after which I felt foolish for having not gotten it right away.There is no relationship so genuinely wonderful that Maeve cannot screw it up. Between Friends doesn’t provide a lot of belly laughs; the humor is more a sigh of recognition at human frailty, and regular readers know the inevitable […]
I like to alternate humorous and political cartoon days, but sometimes the categories cross so here we are. Mike Baldwin has the least political of the funny cartoons today, but the Boring Company is owned by Elon Musk. He claims he thought of the name while stuck in a traffic jam, which is problematic because […]
I’m always surprised when I stumble across one of those Captchas that wants you to click on picture boxes. It’s like getting into a car and realizing it has a choke, except that you never get into a car with a choke unless you’re at an antique car show. Which is to say, it’s like […]
We’ll start the week with a dose of politics and the gift of seeing ourselves as others see us. Depending on how you feel about our chocolate, there’s not much here that seems outlandish or surprising. The humor, rather, is in listing it without choking in horror, as if it were all perfectly normal.Let’s hope […]
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Maeve digs herself into yet another self-defeating romantic hole. This story arc actually began a few days ago, and now she has run into her ex, who is someone she can really talk to. I suspect that Simon is like a lot of the better exes in life, who […]
Between Friends bemoans what is, IMHO, not the degradation of our culture so much as the revelation of it.I suspect we’ve always had roughly the same total number of brain cells globally, but simply weren’t hearing from everyone.Think of it as a liquid, once kept in a tall vase with a narrow neck, the exposed […]